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Ajvide Lindqvist, John, Harbor. [HORROR]
“From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which
begins when a man’s six-year-old daughter vanishes. One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears — either into thin air or under thin ice — leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realizes that people are not telling him all they know; even his own mother, it seems, is keeping secrets. What is happening in Domaro, and what power does the sea have over the town’s inhabitants?”–Provided by publisher.

Baldacci, David. Zero day. [SUSPENSE]
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army’s Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and
his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.

Barnes, Julian. The sense of an ending.
2011 Man Booker Prize. This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present.

Blackstock, Terri, Shadow in Serenity. [ROMANCE]
Carny Sullivan, suspicious about suave, handsome Logan Brisco and his charming ways, is drawn to him, despite her best intentions and her
determination to expose his plans for her quiet Texas town.

Carter, Mary. The Pub across the pond.
Thirty-year-old Carlene Rivers has grown tired of her mundane life in Cleveland, Ohio. Miraculously, her life is forever changed when she wins the
deed to a pub in Ireland. To the surprise of her friends and family, Carlene
actually flies out to Ballybeog, where she quickly falls in love with the quaint town and becomes smitten with the pub’s handsome owner, Ronan McBride.

Carver, Tania. The surrogate. [MYSTERY]
A shocking double-murder scene greets Detective Inspector Philip Brennan when he is called to a flat in Colchester. Two women are viciously cut open and laying spread-eagled, one tied to the bed, one on the floor. The woman on the bed has had her stomach cut into and her unborn child is missing. But this is the third time Phil and his team have seen such an atrocity. Two other pregnant women have been killed in this way and their babies taken from them. No-one can imagine what sort of person would want to commit such evil acts. When psychologist Marina Esposito is brought in, Phil has to put aside his feelings about their shared past and get on with the job. But can they find the killer before another woman is targeted?

Chiaverini, Jennifer. The wedding quilt: an Elm Creek quilts novel.

Coleman, Rebecca. The kingdom of childhood.
Dysfunctional childhood

Connolly, John, The infernals. [SUSPENSE]
A boy, his dog, and their struggle to escape the wrath of demons. Young Samuel Johnson foiled the invasion of Earth by the forces of evil; now they want to get their claws on Samuel and his faithful dachshund, Boswell.

Coulter, Catherine. Prince of Ravenscar: a Sherbrooke novel. [ROMANCE]
Nicholas Monroe, widowed “Prince of Ravenscar,” is feeling pressure from his family to remarry. But the mysterious death of his first wife, Lily, still
hangs over his head.

Crane, Caprice. With a little luck. [ROMANCE]
Facing her romantic prospects with skepticism after two disappointing relationships, successful DJ Berry Lambert, who believes bad things occur in threes, expects a rapid dissolution to her next love affair and is surprised by her attraction to an outspoken, commitment-minded rival.

Dorsey, Tim. When elves attack: a joyous Christmas greeting from the criminal nutbars of the sunshine state. [MYSTERY]
Nobody does Florida weirdness quite like this author. This novel is about thrill killer and Sunshine State historian Serge A. Storms, the most
endearing psychopath since Dexter Morgan. The author offers this zany
blockbuster extravaganza in which his wonderfully deranged serial killer
Floridaphile delivers his special brand of Christmas cheer. More outrageous than Santa Claus in a Speedo, this book serves up a Yuletide feast of “pure gonzo humor”. This book is much like Bad Santa and National Lampoon’s Family Vacation, and blended into the author’s trademark appetite for destruction, it becomes a hilarious crime fiction black comedy.

Drvenkar, Zoran, Sorry. [SUSPENSE]
Kris, Tamara, Wolf, and Frauke are four young friends with too much time on their hands and one big idea: an agency called Sorry. Unfair dismissals, the
wrongly accused, jilted lovers: everyone has a price and the Sorry team will
find out what that is. It’s as simple as that. The idea catches on like wildfire and the quartet are soon raking in the cash, doing the emotional dirty work for fat cats, businessmen, and the romantically challenged. But what they didn’t count on is that their latest client would be a killer.

Duarte, Judy. Christmas on Nutcracker Court. [ROMANCE]
In Fairbrook, a town tailor-made for Christmas, The Diamond Lils, a ladies group who meet weekly to play poker and socialize, decide to do some good
deeds and wealthy widow Lynette thinks that a little matchmaking between single mom Carly Westbrook and Grant Barrows is the perfect place to start.

DuLong, Terri. Sunrise on Cedar Key.
When her apartment and coffee shop are destroyed by fire, Grace must start over on Cedar Key for the second time in ten years in the fourth in a series.

Ellison, J. T. Where all the dead lie. [MYSTERY]
In her showdown with the murderous Pretender, a bullet taken at close range severed the connection between Taylor’s thoughts and speech. Effectively mute, there’s no telling if her voice will ever come back. Trapped in silence, she is surrounded by ghosts of the past, of friendships and trusts lost, of a lost faith in herself and her motives that night. When Memphis Highsmythe offers Taylor his home in the Scottish Highlands to recuperate, her fiance can’t refuse her excitement.

Enger, Thomas, Burned. [MYSTERY]
Norwegian journalist

Eugenides, Jeffrey. The marriage plot.
Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.

Evans, Richard Paul. Lost December.
As heir to the Crisp Copy Center fortune, Luke has it made–until he burns through his entire inheritance in just one year of partying. Ashamed to
ask his famous father for help, he finds employment–and romance–as an entry-level clerk. Can his new love get him back on track?

Gavin, Rick. Ranchero.
Humorous road story

Gerritsen, Tess. Call after midnight. [SUSPENSE]
“A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newly-wed Sarah Fontaine awake. Expecting her husband’s call from London, she hears instead an unfamiliar voice. Nick O’Hara from the US State Department is calling with devastating news: Geoffrey Fontaine, Sarah’s husband of two months, died in a hotel fire … in Berlin. Convinced her husband is still alive, Sarah forces a confrontation with Nick that finds them criss-crossing Europe on a desperate search for Geoffrey that puts both their lives in terrible danger” — Cover verso. Reissue of 2006 paperback. Considered Classic Romantic Suspense.

Graham, Heather. An angel for Christmas. [ROMANCE]
Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shayne’s impending divorce, Morwenna’s slavish devotion to work, and Bobbie’s reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears.

Gray, Shelley Shepard. Christmas in Sugarcreek. [ROMANCE]
Amish series

Grisham, John. The litigators. [SUSPENSE]
Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg see a chance for huge financial gain when they learn of a pending class action lawsuit against the
makers of Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol-reducing drug suspected of causing heart attacks.

Guterson, David. Ed King.
Left on a doorstep after his illegal au pair mother exacts a brutal revenge on his father, Edward is raised by an adoring family and grows up to become a famous billionaire Internet tycoon who hurtles toward a fate that he is powerless to control.

Harris, Charlaine., ed.The Sookie Stackhouse companion.
A tour of Bon Temps, Louisiana, provides a definitive guide to the family, friends, enemies, adventures, and lovers of clairvoyant waitress Sookie Stackhouse, heroine of the bestselling novels and HBO series “True Blood.”

Healy, Erin M. The baker’s wife. [SUSPENSE]
After her husband Geoff, a pastor, loses his job after a scandal in their congregation, Audrey works with Geoff to resurrect a failing bakery, but their troubles grow when Audrey hits a motor scooter whose rider has disappeared.

Herron, Rachael. Wishes and stitches. [ROMANCE]
“Practicing medicine in a small town like Cypress Hollow has always been Naomi Fontaine’s dream, but she’s had a hard time becoming part of the community her late friend, knitting-guru Eliza Carpenter, raved about. Naomi just doesn’t fit in, no matter how hard she tries. When rugged Rig Keller moves to town to take over half of Naomi’s medical practice, he charms the townspeople effortlessly–and catches Naomi’s eye, too. After watching his brother’s heartbreak at losing his wife, Rig’s not interested in anything serious, but finds playing doctor with his new partner impossible to resist. Naomi, confused by how much she feels for Rig, wants to hide their relationship away. But keeping secrets is a dangerous game, and revealing hidden truths can lead to heartbreak. Rig must decide whether to risk his heart, and Naomi whether to open hers completely, before the two of them can be knit together by love”—Provided by publisher. Cypress Hollow Yarn series.

Hollinghurst, Alan. The stranger’s child.
Embraced by the family of his Cambridge schoolmate, Cecil Valance writes an inspiring poem in an autograph album that becomes a staple of every English classroom after he is killed during World War I.

Hopkins, Ellen. Triangles.
Regretting her limits as a stay-at-home mom when she enters midlife, Holly immerses herself in extramarital sex, while single mom Andrea considers pursuing Holly’s cast-off husband and Marissa witnesses the unraveling of her family.

Jacobson, Douglas W., The Katyn Order. [HISTORICAL FICTION]
WWII-Poland

Jin, Ha, Nanjing requiem. [HISTORICAL FICTION]
During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women’s college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent
Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.

Johansen, Iris. Bonnie. [SUSPENSE]
Finally, in the trilogy that began with Eve and continued with Quinn, comes the story that fans have been dying to read. With the help of her beloved Joe Quinn and CIA Agent Catherine Ling, Eve Duncan gets closer and closer to answering the questions that have tormented her. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Bonnie’s father, John Gallo, is a key player in solving this monstrous puzzle. And that Bonnie’s disappearance was not as random as everyone had always believed. Eve, Joe, Catherine, and John find themselves in a deadly dance where answers will be uncovered, and justice might finally be served– if they can all stay alive long enough to make it happen”– Provided by publisher.

Keller, Cynthia. A plain & fancy Christmas.
“Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New York City, Ellie Lawrence is laser-focused on a high-powered public relations career, with too little time for her family, her friends, or even her boyfriend. Then one fateful day, these two very different women receive shocking news of a mistake made three decades earlier and long kept hidden: Shortly after their births, the two were accidentally switched in the hospital.”– Provided by publisher.

Kirkpatrick, Jane, Barcelona calling.
Annie Shaw’s goal is far from simple: become famous. But her second novel tanked, and her new editor wants her to re-write the ending of her latest work to ensure this one is more successful. In order to pursue fame and an elusive bestseller, she travels to Chicago, acquires a rambunctious dog, and
participates in antics better suited to a television reality show than real life. Can Annie’s best friends help her achieve her goals without destroying her future?

Lackey, Mercedes. Changes. [FANTASY]
In the third of a trilogy, Magpie, Lena, and Bear continue on their individual quests as they work to attain the status of full Heralds, Bards, and Healers of Valdemar.

Larsson, Asa, Until thy wrath be past. [MYSTERY]
It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl’s boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police Inspectors Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka is drawn into an investigation that centres on old rumours of a German supply plane that mysteriously disappeared in 1943.

Lewis, Beverly, The mercy.
Rose Kauffman pines for prodigal Nick Franco, the Bishop’s foster son who left the Amish under a cloud of suspicion after his foster brother’s death. His rebellion led to the “silencing” of their beloved Bishop. But is Nick really the rebel he appears to be? Rose’s lingering feelings for her wayward friend refuse to fade, but she is frustrated that Nick won’t return and make things right with the People. Nick avowed his love for Rose–but will he ever be willing to sacrifice modern life for her? Rose Trilogy; bk.3

Lindsay, Jeffry P. Double Dexter. [SUSPENSE]
Forensic analyst and nighttime vigilante Dexter Morgan discovers that he is being followed by a killer who is copying his methods, an adversary whom Dexter seeks to outmaneuver using his trademark knack for extricating himself from trouble.

Lowell, Elizabeth, Chain lightning. [ROMANCE]
Reissue of a Classic Romance title.

Macomber, Debbie. Trading Christmas. [ROMANCE]
Contains “Trading Christmas” & “The Forgetful Bride.”

McDonald, Abby. The popularity rules.
Aspiring music journalist Kat reluctantly submits to a total makeover to become popular, but after she finally gains acceptance from the in-crowd, she begins to question if popularity is the only prize that counts.

Ondaatje, Michael, The cat’s table.
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the cats table as far away from the
Captains Table as can be with a ragtag group of insignificant adults and two
other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of the ship and the boy’ adult years, it tells a spellbinding story by turns poignant and electrifying about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.” adapted from inside cover.

Palahniuk, Chuck. Damned: life is short. Death is forever. [FANTASY]
As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.

Patterson, James & Richard DiLallo. The Christmas wedding.
Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby’s four children have drifted apart and haven’t celebrated Christmas together since their father’s death.
When Gaby announces that she’s getting married–and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day–she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays. But the wedding isn’t Gaby’s only surprise–she has one more gift for her children, and it could change all their lives forever.

Perry, Anne. A Christmas homecoming.
Traveling up the Yorkshire coast with her husband and his acting troupe, Caroline, the mother of Charlotte Pitt, anticipates their arrival at the famed fishing village landing sight of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s tale and develops an awareness about inviting and disallowing evil.

Roberts, Sheila. The nine lives of Christmas.
After firefighter Zach Stone saves Ambrose from a vicious dog, the cat tries to repay him by moving (uninvited) into his house and fixing his lonely
bachelor life. While Zach is buying cat food, he meets Merilee White, a winsome pet store clerk with a fondness for stray cats and big strong men who take them in. Her competition is Zach’s no-strings-attached lover, Blair, a haughty cat-hater who insists Zach evict the cat before Christmas.

Rosenberg, Joel C., The Tehran initiative. [SUSPENSE]
With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran’s nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.

Scott, A. D. A double death on the Black Isle. [MYSTERY]
Scottish journalists

Snow, Carol, What came first.
When single mother Laura decides to give her eight-year-old son a sibling by the same anonymous donor that fathered him, she begins a search that will change the lives of her, her son, and a handful of others whose stories become intertwined.

Sparks, Nicholas. The best of me.
This is the story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they have taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined, and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past.

Steel, Danielle. Hotel Vendome.
After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martin’s life revolves solely around two things–the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise. But their little world is transformed forever when Heloise moves to France for hotel school and Hugues meets his match in Natalie Peterson, a woman who understands him and his love for the Vendome.

Svoboda, Terese. Bohemian girl.
Traded by her father to settle a bet, Harriet spends her childhood in slavery to a ragtag tribe of Pawnee whose leader is obsessed with creating earthen mounds laden with the bones of his human victims. Mere hours before she is to be burned at the stake to feed his crazed vision, Harriet escapes and ventures alone across an unknown and unforgiving landscape, constantly on the lookout for the father who abandoned her four years earlier.

Taylor, Patrick, A Dublin student doctor.
Irish Country series; bk.6

Toro, Guillermo del, Night eternal: book three of the strain trilogy. [SUSPENSE]
A ragtag network of humans–Eph, a brilliant scientist; Vasiliy Fet, an exterminator; and Gus, a former gangbanger–are determined to disrupt and destroy the vampire new world order.

Torres, Justin, We the animals.
Three brothers tear their way through childhood, smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do
battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard
shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn, he is Puerto Rican, she is white, and
their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this novel is a coming-of-age story. It is an exploration of the viscerally charged landscape of growing up, how deeply we are formed by our earliest bonds, and how we are ultimately propelled at escape velocity toward our futures. — Provided by publisher.

Tuck, Lily, I married you for happiness.
The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Still too shocked to grieve, she lets herself remember the defining moments of their long union, beginning with their meeting in Paris. She is an artist, he a highly accomplished mathematician–a collision of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate love. As we move through select memories, real and imagined, the author reveals the most private intimacies, dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that defined Nina and Philip’s life together.

Whitehead, Colson, Zone one. [HORROR]
Mark Spitz and his squad of three “sweepers” move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as “stragglers”: zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their more lethal fellows in favor of a hollow-eyed, eerily nostalgic repetition of some mundane act.

Wilson, F. Paul, The dark at the end. [SUSPENSE]
Repairman Jack finally makes his move to take out his arch-enemy, but must also safely retrieve Dawn Pickering’s child, while his former partner, Ernst Drexler, allies himself with Jack to prepare for the possibility of the final darkness. Bk.15 in series.

Woodrell, Daniel. The outlaw album: stories.
Author of Winter’s Bone.

Woodward, Gerard, Letters from an unknown woman.
“With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother, working at the
local gelatin factory–to help the war effort–and generally doing just about as well as could be expected in difficult times. Her quiet life is thrown into turmoil, however, when her prisoner-of-war husband, Donald, makes an outrageous demand for sexual gratification. He wants a dirty letter”–Dust jacket flap.

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